The Council on East Asian Studies at Yale University inaugurated the Yale CEAS Occasional Publication Series in the spring of 2007 to present scholarship about the East Asian region based on the activities sponsored by the Council.

Volume 1

This Sporting Life: Sports and Body Culture in Modern Japan, edited by William W. Kelly (Yale University) with Sugimoto Atsuo (Kyoto University), 2007

The Olympics in East Asia: Nationalism, Regionalism, and Globalism on the Center Stage of World Sports, edited by William W. Kelly (Yale University) and Susan Brownell (University of Missouri-St. Louis), 2011

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Sports in Japan have long been embedded in community life, the educational system, the mass media, the corporate structures, and the nationalist sentiments of modern Japan. For over a century, they have been a crucial intersection of school pedagogy, corporate aims, media constructions, gender relations, and patriotic feelings. The chapters in this book highlight a wide range of sports, and together, they offer a significant window on to the ways that the sporting life animates the institutions of modern Japan.